In 2016-2017, Uncommon Schools New York City will serve over 5,900 K-12 students across 22 schools in Brooklyn, including both single-sex and co-educational schools.

Each school shares the same central mission of preparing students to enter, succeed in, and graduate from college. To accomplish this, all of our schools operate with the same core operating principles, including:

Joy and rigor

Focus on literacy

Structure and order

Partnership with families

More learning time

Character development

Great teachers

Let’s take a look inside one of our classrooms to view these principles in action: